Scarf-pin guard



(No Model.)

P. WESSELP SGARP'PIN GUARD.

No. 539,158. Patented May 14, 1895.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK WESSEL, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

SCARF-PIN GUARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 539,158, dated May 14,1895.

Application filed November 13, 1894:. Serial No. 528,626. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK WESSEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at New Britain, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticut,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inScarf-Pin Guards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in scarf pin guards and the chiefobject of my improvement is to provide a pin guard that can beconveniently and firmly clamped upon the body of a scarf pin forsecuring it against accidental displacement or theft while at the sametime the guard shall be substantial and I 5 durable.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of mypin-guard with the lever thrown outwardly. Fig. 2 is an end view of thesame. Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section of the body portion, theeccentric and lever being shown in side elevation, together with aportion of a pin to which the guard is attached; and Fig. 4 is a planView of the blank from which the body portion of my guard is formed.

For convenience of illustration I have made the drawings on a largerscale than the article which they represent.

A designates the body having tubular ends 4 and 5 both of which arelongitudinally perforated while the outer face of the end 4 is countersunk as shown in Fig. 3. Upon one side of the body I form lugs 6 betweenwhich I pivot the eccentric 7 on the pin 8, from 3 5 which eccentric thelever'or operating handle 9 extends. The space between the'lugs in frontof the eccentric is in continuation of the perforations in the tubularends as shown.

I prefer to form the body A from a sheet 0 metal blank cut out in theform shown in Fig. 4 in which the parts 66 are to form the lugs 6, andthe partslO are to form the tubular ends 4 and 5. I first bend thisblank along its middle so as to bring themetal into substantially Uform, thereby bringing the lugs 5 6, 6, into their proper position. Theedges of the parts 10 are then bent to complete their the counter sunkend 4 to bind the eccentric upon the pin 1]. as shown in Fig. 4. Afterthe scarf pin is put on with one end of the pin passing through, theguard is slipped upon the projecting end of the pin by presenting thecounter sunk end 4 to the point of the pin. The lever is then turneddown to secure the guard to the pin and by thus slipping the guard oncountersunk end first, the lever will always be turned down by the sideof, or toward the point of the pin as shown in Fig. 4.

I claim as my invention- The herein described scarf pin guard consistingof the body A having tubular ends,. one of which is countersunk andbetween said ends the lugs 6, 6, the eccentric 7 pivoted to said lugsand the lever handle 9, of said eccentric said handle and eccentricbeing re lated to said body and countersunk end as described, to havetheeccentric bind upon the pin when the handle is turned away from saidcountersunk end, substantially as described and for the purposespecified.

FREDERICK WESSEL.

Witnesses:

JAMES W. DANFORTH, VALENTINE GRONDSTRA.

